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Last Updated: Jun 28, 2008 - 10:47:15 AM


Graphic Classics: Stoker
By Michael Vance
Feb 9, 2008 - 7:57:39 AM

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Graphic Classics: Stoker
Eureka Productions
Creators: Various
$11.95 and 141 pages
www.graphicclassics.com.

If he had only written Dracula, Bram Stoker would have been a master of horror. Thankfully, he wrote other shivering horror stories as well, and Dracula and six additional Stoker classics are featured in the seventh volume of Graphic Classics.

All are well adapted by various scribes, which may be the saving grace of this issue.  If there is any criticism of the Graphic Classics series of comic adaptations, it is that too many stories requiring a realistic approach to art feature a minimalistic or “cartoony” approach instead.  This collection is no exception.

Should you invest in Bram Stoker if you don’t care for simplistic doodles as does this reviewer?  You betcha!

This reviewer’s favorites include Dracula (adapted by Tom Pomplun, art by Hunt Emerson), The Judge’s House (adapted and drawn by Gerry Alanguilan), Torture Tower (adapted and drawn by Onsmith Jeremi) and Lair of the White Worm (adapted by Tom Pomplun, art by Rico Schacheel). Favorite artists include Gerry Alanguilan and Rico Schacheel.

Why does horror require realistic art?

A major tool of a horror writer is atmosphere, i.e. the subtle anticipation of crippling damage or even death. It is tough to garner fear with stick figures.

Nevertheless, Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker is recommended. The publisher recommends the collection “for ages 12 to adult”.


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